Acorn TV, BritBox and MHZ Choice shop for scripted content at ITV
Fifteen-Love, starring Aiden Turner and Ella Lily Hyland
Acorn TV, BritBox and MHZ Choice are among the Canadian, US and Lat Am broadcasters and streamers picking up a host of scripted content from UK commercial broadcaster ITV.
In the US and Canada, World Productions’ Fifteen-Love, starring Aiden Turner and Ella Lily Hyland, is currently streaming on AMC Networks’ Sundance Now.
In addition, SRC in French Canada has signed on for the six-part series, created and written by Hania Elkington (The Innocents, The Essex Serpent) and directed by Eva Riley (Perfect Ten) and Toby MacDonald (Ragdoll).
Meanwhile, AMC Networks’ Acorn TV has secured US premiere rights for six-part medical drama Maternal, as well as second-window rights in Canada. This comes after CBC signed a deal for first-window rights for the series last year.
A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, produced by Silverprint Pictures for ITV, has sold to BritBox in the US and Canada. Until I Kill You, from World Productions for ITV, has also sold to BritBox in the US and Hollywood Suite in Canada.
PBS Distribution has extended its rights for detective drama Endeavour (Mammoth Screen for ITV), period drama Victoria starring Jenna Coleman (Mammoth Screen for ITV), and period drama Poldark (Mammoth Screen for BBC).
Additionally, Janus Films and the Criterion Collection have opted to extend the rights to a package of 94 titles in the US and Canada, including classic films The 39 Steps, Brief Encounter and The Lady Vanishes.
European dramas Blackwater (Apple Tree Productions for SVT, ARD, RUV, YLE, NRK, DR) and A French Village (Un Village Français Tetra Media Fiction for France 3), set against the backdrop of World War Two have been sold to MHZ Choice. Along with Piste Noire (Macondo Productions for France 2), season two of procedural Petra (Cattleya for Sky Italia) and the Italian crime drama Carlo and Malik (Cattleya for Rai Uno).
Meanwhile, Globo in Brazil has acquired rights to the diverse dating show I Kissed A Boy and I Kissed A Girl (TwoFour for BBC Three), An Audience with Kylie Minogue (Lifted Entertainment for ITV), and the dating game show Ready to Mingle (Potato for ITV).
